[chillfox]

It’s just a fork of mysql.

[tim--]

but an incompatible fork. There are many major differences between MySQL and MariaDB. https://mariadb.com/database-topics/mariadb-vs-mysql/

[deafpolygon]

It wasn't an incompatible fork at first. It's now diverged a bit.

[jamesfinlayson]

Yeah that was my recollection. I thought putting a company behind it might have changed that but apparently not.